Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

Prerequisites

You can set up a single-node cluster on your personal laptop without making any network configuration changes since a single node requires a unique IP, and you can either use localhost or the public/private IP for gossip protocol and client communication. To run a multinode cluster, you would need to set up multiple unique IP addresses to be used by different instances of Cassandra. This should be straightforward if you had access to several physical servers or if you run Cassandra within virtual machines or docker containers. In our case, we will be setting up multiple loopback addresses apart from 127.0.0.1. Once we have multiple unique IP addresses, we will have to set up a unique directory space for each Cassandra instance ...